Thursday, 28 July 2016

Yoshinori Noguchi aka Silentwave is a Japanese composer from Yokohama working most exclusively in the ambient field or drones music, though sometimes also going for a kind of repetitive electro used for commercials or exhibitions. His music expresses the themes of nature, consciousness and unconsciousness.

He is a prolific musician having recorded a lot of records, live or in studio.

To choose from his huge collection of music was not easy, but this album will give you a good opportunity to listen to his musical world.

The Deep Sea is a 20 minutes long piece of his typically ambient compositions while Noisebeat is a long repetition of a drone bell beat and ... noise!

The trio first appeared together in a concert produced by the Circuiterie Collective at the Nuovo Cinema Palazzo in Rome, with Geoff Leigh (of Henry Cow fame) as a special guest on sax and flute. The concert was aired in its entirety in the program Battiti , on Rai RadioTre (third channel of italian national radio).

Wednesday, 20 July 2016

One more time, Pierre Vervloesem brings his genius sense of music to another level!

This time, with fellows Teun Verbruggen on drums and Adrien Lambinet on trombone and effects.

On the first track, they go for a very improvised set, following a chart of time written in advance by Pierre allowing each of them a certain amount of minutes to do whatever they want with their own instrument or obliging them to improvise together.

The second set is completely improvised, one shot of free music.

At time, abstract, dub, jazz, classical or almost pop, the music is nevertheless extremely powerful or delicately played.

Thursday, 7 July 2016

Bart Maris (full bio here) is a Belgian trumpet player. He has performed in a very large number of bands, either as a group member or a guest musician on records or in concert. He was one of the original members of Fukkeduk with Niek Roseeuw, Kristof Roseeuw, Tom Dewulf, Jan Kuijken, Rik Verstrepen, Frank Gijsels, and also the Gerard Van Dongen Kwintet with Joe Williamson, Tom Wouters, Henk Bakker. He was in KAMIKAZE, with Tom Wouters, Filip Wauters, Kristof Roseeuw, also in X-Legged Sally with Peter Vermeersch, Pierre Vervloesem, Danny Van Hoeck, Pol Belgrado and Jean-luc Plouvier and later Peter Van Den Berghe. Maris joined Think of One, with Roel Poriau, Erik Morel, Tobe Wouters, Thomas Desmedt, David Bové and the Flat Earth Society (band). He also plays in the Brussels mestizo band Jaune toujours, with his brother Piet Maris, Electric Barbarian, and in Synaesthetic.

He has recorded with an impressive list of musicians, including Deus, Zita Swoon, Marc Moulin, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, John Zorn…

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